, so I'm keen to understand if there's anything to learn from these tragic incidents.
so should others, around the time I got thrown off the Shropshire Local Access Forum, shortly after the chair was taken over by a hereditary landowner, I had been trying to get the idea over that not enough attention is given lowland walking, how the access network falls short of giving novice walkers worthwhile challenges, so they will not be immediately attracted to the National Parks before they get some familiarity with their skills and physical abilities. At that time a walker had taken a wrong path of the top of Snowdon and fallen down the North Face.
When you come to do a descent, you are tired and this applies to the brain as well as your body, so judgement can be a factor. I read the inquest judgement at the time, though I remember little of the facts now, I recall my immediate hunch about what could have happened having spent quite a bit of time during winters climbing the Trinity Gullies there.I don't think there enough emphasis on false trails, walkers are not the only users of the mountains and rock climbing in all weathers has increased enormously since my day, but we climbed enough of the Tryfan east face in poor conditions back in the 1960's and 70's to leave false trails to the tops of climbs, as we would have doing the Trinities in Snow and Ice. Belay positions on the tops of the cliffs increase the foot erosion and combined with water running down this does increase the appearance of a footpath.
With the combined effect of tiredness and not double checking your exact direction of travel, leaves a possibility that false trails lure those less familiar with their general fitness into a dangerous place.
Thanks to the landowner of our LAF I was not able to get these thoughts into the minutes.